Yup, politicians are the very scum of the earth. The scummiest of the lot need official residences, because who'd want a senior politico living next door? There goes the damn neighbourhood.
Can you imagine? Hearing someone complain that the bikers next door are shooting off bazookas, sex offenders on release are peering through their windows, and local vivisectionists are graduating from neighbourhood pets? Nah, nah, old son, I have you beat. I've got the honourable so-and-so two doors down. Nope, can't see him, he's off somewhere, a billing us all.